Subjects include: the early settlers, early homes and home life, the Parson Capen House, the Topsfield Historical Society, town government, French and Indian Wars, the Revolution, the Civil War, churches, schools, libraries, the Post Office, taverns and hotels, the witchcraft delusion, poor and strangers, trades and occupations, physicians and medical practice, printing and bibliography, highways and bridges, railroads, cemeteries and burying-grounds, topography.